English - Actress | July 12, 1966 -
I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
Tamsin Greig
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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